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Parents and children, 252 -254, 318 n;

parental blessing (radhi ), 69 , 318 n;

relations between, 65 -69, 127 -128, 326 n;

relations between adoptive, 320 n.

See also Kinship; Men; Women

Parsons, T., 142 , 155 , 282 , 283 , 307 , 314 n

Pate Island, 29

Patrilinear descent lines:

foreigners belong to wives, 32 ;

general ignorance of membership in, 64 ;

partial base for tribes, 31 -32, 53 -54;

ritual functions of, 317 n

Patterns of culture:

common element, 239 , 301 -303;

defined, 210 -211;

extrinsic organization of medical, 235 -241;

influences of on those not sharing, 211 , 224 ;

intrinsic organization of balance pattern, 211 -212;

processes based on, 240 -241.

See also Cultural organization; Unshared culture

Pelto, J. and G. Pelto, 64 , 125

Phatic communion, 137 -138

Piers, G. and M. Singer, 179 , 288

Pitt-Rivers, J., 307

Poetry, Swahili, 29 -30

Political offices:

during colonial period, 321 n;

sheikh and Wazee , 32 ;

Tamim , 32 , 35 ;

non-Swahili offices, 34 , 35

Politics of nuclear family, 243 -244, 318 n

Pollnac, R., 125

Poole, Fitz, xiii

Portuguese, 30 , 314 -315n.

See also History of Swahili

Pouwells, R., 30 , 33 , 37 , 64 , 315 n

Predictability:

different basis in simplex and multiplex relationships, 273 ;

incomplete sharing and, 142 -144, 191 ;

necessary but not sufficient for relationships, 322 n;

to-kens and, 143 , 328 n.

See also Expectations; Interaction; Unshared culture

Prins, A., 29 , 52 , 54 , 57 , 314 n, 315 n

Procedural understandings, 284

Proverbs, ix , xi , 41 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 69 , 77 , 124 , 125 , 145 , 157 , 158 , 160 , 165 , 166 , 168 , 177 , 183 -184, 185 , 209 , 222 , 237 , 242 , 248 , 311 ;

collecting and interpreting, 315 n-316n, 327 n